Word: judgmentalism
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...media's clock is perennially poised at a minute before midnight, and a U.S. military buildup around Iraq continues to gather steam, for now the pace and terms of the confrontation are being set by the inspection and disarmament process. And right now, the UN is not rushing to judgment...
Science fiction aficionados consider Battlefield Earth one of Hubbard’s best works. But Goelman hesitates to make an authoritative judgment, having not delved much into the Hubbard canon. “I read one a long time ago and it was fine,” he says delicately. “L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a very pulpy time.” Asked about his own literary tastes, Goelman mentions Kafka and Borges, and adds, “I thought Harry Potter was great...
...group of U.N. weapons inspectors, prove that Hussein would never risk his life or his power in order to strike the U.S. or its allies. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) argued in August that “containment of Saddam is working… He would not, in my judgment, initiate an attack with a weapon of mass destruction because it would lead to his own destruction… He’s a survivalist, not a suicide bomber...
...decision, the court prohibited the use of quotas in admissions but did not officially pass judgment on the Harvard model of using race as one factor...
...Muslim Somali refugee turned Dutch political activist. Before death threats convinced her to flee the country, she made her name documenting a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population and railing against the orthodoxy of multiculturalism that refused to pass judgment on practices she unapologetically labeled “backward.” Alis is not affiliated with a right-wing party and the Dutch are famously tolerant people who put up with everything. Neither Alis nor her country fit the usual profile of claustrophobic bigots. The better-known politician Pim Fortuyn...